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Mixing Your …. Metaphors

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YA and I don’t do much fast food but we do like Taco Bell.  I’m probably in the drive-through at the Edina location every couple of weeks. 

Two weeks ago our fridge was filled with ingredients for party food so I stopped by Taco Bell on the way home for lunch.  We almost always get the same thing so it wasn’t a very eventful  stop until I came around the back of the building.  Right in front of me was a Papa John’s delivery car, complete with the sign on top.

I thought it was pretty funny and understandable.  Even if you get all the pizza you want to eat for free when you work at Papa John’s, every now and then you probably need something else to tease your tastebuds.

Hopefully his management thinks it’s funny too and not poor advertising!

Do you ever do the drive-through for anything?

50 thoughts on “Mixing Your …. Metaphors”

  1. McDonalds. Lots of the meals at her AL place make her sick. So I often buy her McDonalds, which she would eat more often than I buy it. For Christmas Ever I share a meal of it with her. It is awful. I sometimes pick up my drugs in a drive through. That’s it.

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  2. I use the drive-through at the bank.
    Once or twice a year, if we leave early on a car trip, we’ll swing through a McDonalds for an Egg McMuffin after an hour or so of driving.
    I don’t think I’ve ever stopped at a Taco Bell.

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  3. At least it wasn’t a Taco John’s sign on the car you saw… that would be poor advertising!

    I too go to Taco Bell, for the Chicken Quesidilla once in a while. And we have a coffee spot Mugby Junction with pretty much the best in town, so I stop there first if I’m out on errands.

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  5. I use the bank drive thru regularly. A long time ago I did go thru McDonald’s on a fairly regular basis – now it is rare. There is a Culver’s very close to me and I do go thru there maybe once a month.

    I won’t be doing any drive thru for at least another month, when hopefully I can begin driving again. The boot is a godsend in terms of being able to remove it to air out my leg and start stretching out the joint. Still 3+ weeks of no weight bearing.

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  6. Thinking about the advertising implications of company trucks, do you think that when the Orkin man stops for lunch at a restaurant he is obliged to park down the block?

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  7. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    I drive through the pharmacy window to pick up meds, and the bank now and then.

    Then there is the Culver’s Drive Through, which is a saga all its own. Twice in the first location of the Eden Prairie Culvers, it was rebuilt because it sank into the swamp below it. That got weird because if you drove through and it was sinking, you would encounter a big dip, then a cement crack that finally became too big to navigate. Then the entire store was a victim of eminent domain so the Southwest Station that feeds the train could be expanded. The restaurant moved to the Lunds and Byerlys very flat, very solid parking lot. No more sinking. During COVID isolation, became the hottest place in town. The line through the drive-thru was blocks long requiring a entirely new traffic plan through the L and B parking lot. Now and then I drive through that for a “Flavor of the Day.

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    1. Recently I watched a Yogi Bera documentary. He was so famous for language an mixing metaphors. Surely there is one that I think of before the day expires.

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  8. I don’t use a drive-through very often anymore. I don’t eat much fast food. When I have a yearning for “fast” food, I go to the Co-op and have whatever is in the deli. They have some yummy roasted veggies with tofu and herbed steamed rice there that I like.

    OT: I’m tearing down the Christmas decorations today and I’m feeling so much more cheerful with the clutter out of here. I think when the decorations come out, the expectations (want them or not) come out with them. I’m happy to see some blue sky today. And the chickadees are so much fun to watch.

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  9. OT: I printed this out many years ago and I keep it in my boxes of Christmas decorations. Linda posted this on December 26, 2011.

    Linda in St. Paul (West Side)
    DECEMBER 26, 2011 AT 5:59 PM
    OT – a snippet of W. H Auden:

    Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree,
    Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes —
    Some have got broken — and carrying them up to the attic.
    The holly and the mistletoe must be taken down and burnt,
    And the children got ready for school. There are enough
    Left-overs to do, warmed-up, for the rest of the week —
    Not that we have much appetite, having drunk such a lot,
    Stayed up so late, attempted — quite unsuccessfully —
    To love all of our relatives, and in general
    Grossly overestimated our powers.

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  10. Rarely and only if necessary. Like if I NEED coffee and the only close alternative is a drive-through only coffee shop. Many times I notice that it’s probably faster to park, walk in, and order at the counter instead of waiting in line behind 8-10 cars. But I hate talking through those tinny speakers. Half the time I can barely understand what the person is saying. And, it’s a small detail, but all that idling by cars in line adds to the air pollution.

    Chris in O-town

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      1. Dropped the dog off at the boarding kennel and then got the van washed. Bought ice for the cooler to transport lefse and frozen homemade pesto. I miss that silly little dog already!

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  12. We get our vaccinations at a drug-store a block away from the ice cream place that has a drive-thru. The custom is that if you get a shot, you’re entitled to a shake (or something like that). When the weather is warm (not lately) we sometimes send one or the other of us to the drive-thru for our Saturday evening meal.

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  13. taco bell bk mcdonald’s drug store coffee bank
    the other taco joints taco liebre and taco ……. my daughter shops target online and callus in with a parking space number so she doesn’t have to unload kids

    taco bell fiesta burrito is the best meal from fast food snarf

    nothing more needed
    1 burrito is perfect

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  14. Car wash, pharmacy, bank, and about twice a year the local Caribou Coffee is about the extent of my use of drive-thru. My rule for going coffee is, if there is no, one, or max two cars in line when I go to Farmers Market during the summer months, that’s a sign that I should get a cuppa. Most often there’s a long line, and I don’t care to wait in it, so I just get my veggies at the market. I have a similar rule when driving east on Lake Street. If I drive by Ingebretsen’s and there’s an open parking spot in front of the store, it’s a sign that I should stop in and stock up on some of their Danish specialties. It works like a charm.

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  17. I have a bad left shoulder, hard to reach out with my left arm. I cannot do drive through ATM’s. I have a small car. Many drive through windows are too high for me to use.
    Clyde.

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    1. Dunkin’ six blocks from my house. Have not been there in years. It is very easy to resist places like that without Sandra with me. I have almost every drive through chain within a mile of me, including a couple new ones like Slim Chicken I have never even considered. Four pharmacy drive through’s. About 8 banks including mine with a window almost as high as the top of my car. Culver’s. Hardee’s. KFC. Panera. Arby’s. Pot belly. Jimmy John’s. Dickey’s BBQ. Wendy’s. Elbert and Gerbert’s. Panda Express. Taco John’s. Taco Bell. Two McDonald’s. Caribou. Scooters. Starbucks. Not to mention the new Circle K convenience store 60 yards from my back door.

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  19. And I had such a fun day. Sandy had her monthly visit from her NP who showed up wearing crocs in the style of the Barbie movie to which she had added some decorations of her own. Sandra was delighted. But then she did her bp which was 176/91. So I spent a lot of time there while np dealt with that. I had a bad migraine to begin with. Then our kids took Covid tests and got positive results meaning negative results. no connection. They live 2000 miles apart. I then got a bunch of tests over to my daughter and family and then back to my wife. Her almost non existent thyroid is out of control. Changed her meds. Spent last 2 hours lying in dark room, just me and my migraine. Lying here in semi dark now.

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  20. Drive-throughs at coffee shops are pretty much out for me. That’s because I use a reuseable cup, and that’s not feasible with a drive-through. Perhaps it would be if there were no other customers there….but that never happens.

    There is a little Thai place I go to and get food occasionally. They have a full service restaurant elsewhere, so I suppose the food is substantially prepared elsewhere and brought to the drive-through site. It’s a tiny building that used to be a coffee place. I get their egg rolls often, and they are very fresh and hot and crisp. Sometimes I also order an entree, but the entrees require a fork, so you don’t want to partake in the car. Just bring it home.

    Taco Bell is a good option if I am just unexpectedly hungry and don’t want to spend a lot of money. Something like a bean and cheese burrito is an economical choice, ready in just a couple of minutes.

    Drive-through banking is a convenience, especially in cold weather when it’s nice not having to get out of the car.

    There are a number of places in the Twin Cities where there’s a liquor store that has a drive-through sign. I don’t think any of them actually still have a drive-though, though. The signs have been altered. During the pandemic, it seemed for awhile that the idea of a drive-through liquor store might be revived, but it wasn’t.

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    3. I’ve had take-out from that Thai place a couple of times, and I thought it was very good. I haven’t been there in well over a year though, and Hans had given me the impression that it had closed. I’ll have to check it out myself.

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      1. They recently put up a lighted “Open” sign in the front window. When they are open, the light blinks off and on, so it’s pretty easy to tell if there’s somebody there.

        For a long time it was hard to tell. There were times I drove around to the back and peered into the kitchen because I wasn’t sure.

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